Michael Aivaliotis

We were at the Iron works bbq. Ya, you really need twitter for niweek.

Christina. The app is a little finicky. Here are how the screens should look like: Notice that it shows me logged-in. Make sure you are logged-in.

A cluster is a collection of datatypes. And datatypes can be constants.

My tips and trick for NIWeek 2010. Probably applies to any NIWeek. Go to The Gingerman on Sunday night. The Gingerman has turned into the unofficial pre-show kickoff for LAVA members. You can go there whenever, but most of us start showing up late after the sun goes down. They have a backyard patio, so don't look inside the restaurant. Walk all the way through the back doors! Don't spend money on food. NI feeds their guests well. Also make sure to get to the keynote early because they serve breakfast in the halls outside the keynote area. Lunch is served between 11:30am-1pm at the exhibit hall. Don't sit in your hotel room. If you don't know where to go after the convention center closes for the day, then go walk on 6th street. You're bound to find someone from the show walking around. A lot of us like hanging out at Buffalo Billiards. Check in there. In any case, you'll love the live music wherever you end up. Don't rent a car. You won't need one. Austin is a small city and you can probably walk everywhere you need to go. Beware of Drunk Catchers: These are huge openings in the ground between the sidewalk and the road. Norm almost lost a leg in there. They say it's to drain the water quickly to prevent floods. I think it's to trap drunken NIWeek attendees. Use Twitter on your mobile phone to keep track of where all the cool people are and what their doing. You want to be cool too don't you, what's wrong with you? Follow LAVA and also follow the followers of LAVA. Also follow: NIWeek, LabVIEW. Come to the LAVA BBQ: If you don't have a ticket, sorry. Also sorry, if you're a vegetarian. Hang out at the JKI Booth: I'll be there (Booth 841 in the exhibit hall) and so will many other LabVIEW Champions and friends of LAVA. If you're going to hang out at someone's booth, then it should be there. Make it to all evening activities: NI sponsors many night time activities. Find out about them and join in. They're always fun. Don't hang out at Coyote Ugly: Many of us cary cameras and we will take compromising pictures of you and put them in the Gallery. Post your photos to the LAVA Gallery: Just go to the NIWeek 20xx category, create an album and then post them in your album. You can also post photos directly from your iphone with the new iphone app. Attend the keynotes: Even if you've got a major hangover, try to wake up for the keynotes. They're awesome! Only attend the Advanced Sessions: Trying to make it to all the sessions is impossible. Pick the ones that give you the most bang. For me, it's the Advanced LabVIEW sessions in the Software Development Track. (Shameless Plug). BTW, bring a sweater or fleece, just in case. The session rooms can become very cold. Talk to people: Above all, it's about meeting with everyone you couldn't at any other venue. All the folks on LAVA and the Dark Side. Most of all, the NI developers of LabVIEW. Find them, track them down, thank them for their hard work and then complain about all the features that are still not in LabVIEW. PS: Jeff Kodosky, the father of LabVIEW can always be found hanging at the show (Tweet if you spot him). I also want to mention that I will be posting videos every day from NIWeek for those that can't make it. I can do this because I'll be using my iPhone exclusively to capture video, do the editing and uploading to Youtube. Subscribe or RSS feed it here.

Get it here. Mainly it provides an App interface to LAVA, but most importantly allows you to post photos right from your phone directly to your albums in the Gallery. When asked for the Forum URL in the app use: http://lavag.org

I went to http://www.capmetro.org and found a bus that leaves from 6th street.

LabVIEW Home Direct Download Link (32bit) Direct Download Link (64bit) All Versions New Features Please use this thread to discuss all the new LabVIEW 2010 features.

Admin Note: I just changed the PM limit to 10 people from 5.

Sounds like a LAVA Coding Challenge.

PS: Thanks for props. to LAVA BBQ.

Hey Mikael. That was another function I used but it wasn't working for me. I was setting the hWndInsertAfter parameter to 0 (Places the window at the top of the Z order). However by setting it to -1 and then back to -2. I managed to get the result I needed. :-) Thanks!

I need to programmatically force my LabVIEW application to become frontmost on a Windows system. Basically I want it to punch through any currently open application windows and become the main active app. What I've tried: I ran the SetForegroundWindow Windows API function. This causes the titlebar to flash and draw attention for a short while but does not make it frontmost. I ran the BringWindowToTop Windows API function. This does not make it frontmost. I made my application window floating. This does appear to work. However this causes other problems since the window which I need to be frontmost is also a dialog box. So I don't want the user to click behind the dialog box onto my main application window. I tried using the floating window property (as mentioned above), then quickly made it modal again. This has the affect of flashing the window to the user and then disappearing behind any other app windows. Not good and also confusing. So, is there any way to do this?

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